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Terra Nova Restaurante

4.5 (52 reviews)
Closed 12:00 pm - 12:00 am (Next day)

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Classy
Good for groups
Dogs allowed
Outdoor seating

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Kina A.

Amazing location! Porto is known for its Codfish and it was freaking good here! Also, the best mushroom risotto I have ever had. They were so accommodating since we had a baby and toddler with us. They made them a kids meal with veggie spaghetti and it was SO tasty me and my husband were both so impressed! My 4 year old LOVED my mushroom risotto. The meal was great and the view was beautiful!

Prawns risotto
Dorothy H.

A smaller spot along the river, what a hidden gem. A larger group of us (10 people total) came for dinner - make a reservation if you have a bigger group since there is limited space! This was the best risotto I had during my entire trip to Portugal. I know how dramatic that sounds, but the cheesiness and richness of the risotto and the juicy prawns made all the difference. The restaurant itself is so cute and charming - a window upstairs to look out for beautiful river views. Would recommend this spot for everyone visiting Porto!

Jaime C.

This place was recommended on a blog, but after visiting it I'm thinking this blogger was paid to say it. The restaurant is in a very touristy area. Fortunately for being a large group we didn't have to wait too long for a table and I did like the decor and ambiance of the place. Service was just ok, not very attentive or friendly, but not rude. I was excited to try the octopus with black ink risotto, but it was very chewy and still slimy, not well prepared at all. The wine we got was very good, but the food was sub par.

Oysters natural

Owner is a lovely lady and makes the experience. I only had oysters so can't speak to the rest of the menu but the dishes I saw coming out around me looked great!

Black risotto w/octopus & sirloin beef
Amanda C.

Wow, this was a great choice for our last night in Porto recommended by our hotel! We had originally planned to go to another spot but they were fully booked - our hotel helped us make resos for this spot. We ordered the oysters, black risotto w/octopus, and sirloin beef w/truffle potatoes & veg. The black risotto was delicious and the octopus was cooked to perfection. One of our best dishes here and quite unique. The sirloin beef was OK - I would stick to seafood at this restaurant I think. The veggies were a bit too salty and the mashed potatoes could be creamier. Overall a great spot for octopus! Service was a bit slow especially as it got busier around 7:30-8pm. Seems as though there is more seating outside than inside. Great view of the river.

Mark M.

Service was slow but the prawns were perfect. The fries were soggy and the garlic mayo was a bit too strong. The bread was excellent being crunchy on the outside. The butter with it was nice. Olives were not bad. Decor was amazing inside and upstairs.

Crab pasta
Krysten I.

We had walked by Terra Nova earlier and noticed they had a display of oyster shells. Later we decided to go back to have lunch since we were craving something seafood related and assumed terra Nova would have some seafood options. It was raining and the interior tables were full, so we sat outside and hoped it wouldn't rain harder. They have about three tables on the first floor (inside) and a few more upstairs, where the bathroom also is. Outside there are probably about 5 tables . It was cold and the waitress brought one of the other customers a blanket. Nice touch. The service was great. They apologized for the rain and helped wipe down everything that was getting wet. We had plate changed and wine bucket changes. I thought it was almost unnecessary, but it was good service. The waiters were friendly and apologetic when the food was taking awhile. We were a little less impressed with the food. It was interesting stuff... soft shell crab pasta, oysters with yuzu and pear, pizza with soft egg, squid bolognese gnocchi. But I don't know if I would be back for the food. The oysters were good but about $3 each. The squid gnocchi had a good sauce, but I wasn't too impressed with the gnocchi. The pizzas were decent, nothing too exceptional. The crab pasta was maybe the best, but I thought the homemade pasta was kinda weird... too thin maybe? It didn't really taste like pasta. Nothing tasted bad. Maybe it just wasn't what I was expecting.

Cod Linguini and Orange Juice
Celeste M.

My family and I ate here and it was so delicious. The service was great and we were sat in ear shot of musicians. The environment was really lovely and upbeat, but not too much so that we couldn't hear well. The mushroom risotto and the cod linguini were absolutely amazing. The fries with garlic mayo was too. Definitely worth coming!

Taylor A.

So the wait time without a reservation is incredibly long, however, I'd say it was worth the wait on a busy Friday night. I had a bottle of wine, a basket of bread, the raw oysters (a half order), and the bolognese gnocchi. The service is a bit all over the map (which was my overall experience in Portugal) and they would confirm an order, go inside, come back out and decline, then come back again (this happened twice). However, the servers were very kind and friendly to me, a tourist! I'd probably give three stars if it weren't for the ambiance and the service. The food wasn't really something I'd write home about, but it looked gorgeous, it wasn't outrageously priced, and I didn't leave hungry. I did leave a lil drunk though!

Oysters
Angela H.

LOOK AT THE GOOGLE REVIEWS BEFORE COMING. We did not and we regret it. We came into a full house and the front desk lady was nice to squeeze us in. Like everyone else we were intrigued by the crab with pasta and we ordered that with 3 oysters and the cod linguine. The dishes took a while but they were not as advertised. The proportions were small, came out COLD, and there was NO CRAB like the pictures. When we asked if we ordered correctly the waitress said yes there's crab in the pasta. We ate it and it was pretty bland. Oysters were small, only had lime on the side. Cod linguine was pretty good but again - came to our table COLD and was not very enjoyable. Still puzzled with our crab pasta, we asked a different waiter and he then said "today we have no crab" which was NOT explained when we ordered our dishes. On our way out we were pretty disappointed and when we passed the front desk lady on the way out about the crab dish she then said they had none available today and what we received was crab paste with shrimp as a substitute. This was NEVER explained and we were charged the original price of their unavailable dish. When we asked why this wasn't explained to us she insisted that she had explained and it was impossible that we were uninformed. I totally understand that things happen, supply is not guaranteed, and on a busy day dishes may come out late and cold. But when things like this happen the customers expect an apologetic attitude and not a defensive one. This was hard to believe because our stay at Portugal and Porto has been nothing short of excellence everywhere we went. Left disappointed.

Meal with a view
Rane R.

Great spot to enjoy in Porto. Food was great, view was wonderful and service on point. Not pictured is the olive oil and olives, but they were amazing. Had a glass of rose and that was crisp and light, perfect for an afternoon.

Tiramisu
Kelvin L.

The best part of this restaurant is being at the perfect location of the port, great opportunity to take pictures with the bridge or the river. Also good to just sit and enjoy the environment around you (lots of street performers). It does get a bit busy given the popular area. Now to the food. We started off with oysters with yuzu and pear, which came in a very nice presentation. Tasty as it sounds! Prawn tiane, with avocado and grapefruit was more of a curious dish for us to try and it may have been the best of what we chose. Everything paired well with each other. For main we chose bacalhau corado (shared because we wanted to preserve our stomach for our ongoing portugal food journey). The soup was on the saltier side. The cod was good, as was the gnocchi. If the soup was a tad milder, it would have made this place a 5-star. We ended off with the tiramisu, which was anything but traditional. It was more of a "naked tiramisu". More on the sweeter end. I'm glad we tried it (again for its uniqueness), but definitely more of an one time thing. Great for couples, taking in the surrounding environment, or just chilling at the port.

Oysters
Youri Y.

We checked out the menu from the outside patio and decided to give it a try since a lot of other restaurants had capped their patrons and this place had raving reviews. After a while's wait, we got seated inside by the window facing out and were informed we can order only the snacks section (no entrees boo). We ordered the duck ham, egg yolk pine nut salad, flamed prawns and cod fish cakes with a side of green wine. We were also given bread slices to dip into the oily sauce of the flamed prawns. The food tasted amazing! It was definitely a pro chef's work and happy we got to enjoy the presentation as well as the flavorful quality that reflected it. The service was excellent too on top of that like family that checks up on you and makes sure you're good. Only thing I'm docking a star is not being able to order the risotto or linguine but other than it was wonderful :D

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Review Highlights - Terra Nova Restaurante

Mushroom risotto and Cod over linguini (found out chef learned how to make pasta from 1 * Michelin restaurant) - soo delicious.

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Taberna Dos Mercadores - Poached Pear

Taberna Dos Mercadores

4.7(107 reviews)
0.1 km

So this place showed up on a bunch of lists of places to go in Porto, and for good reason - but I…read morewas having trouble finding the hours, so I figured I'd just get there around noon once I was in Porto, and ask. Around noon, someone did show up briefly to post a sign out front saying they were going to be opening at 12:45 that day (I asked out of curiosity; sounds like it's *often* 12:30, but it's really mostly a "they'll open when they want to" kind of place.) I knew it'd be the sort of place that would fill up immediately, so I got back at 12:30. At least that day, it turns out they still had 1 table left after they sat everyone there before they opened - that last table got claimed at 1, 15 minutes later. It's not a large space, and word is out for good reason. Given it's not a large space, it was also easy for them to have excellent service, which they did. You could tell they were all passionate about the place, and again, for good reason - it was great. Definitely one of the best meals we ate on that trip. Between the two of us, we tried: Complimentary bread and olive oil. One OMG fantastic, wonderful fish soup. The sort of soup you'd want to eat every day if you could. Croquettes that were pretty good. Enjoyable enough, perfectly crispy, a little too salty. Not nearly as memorable as everything else. The seafood rice stew for 2 - a description I always question ("for 2"), but true in this case. It was quite large - and great. Excellent shrimp, which I'm picky about. I'm even pickier about shellfish (clams, mussels, etc). I was expecting to give my wife most of them, but I did *not* do that. They really know how to get and cook the best seafood here. The rice at the top of the stew wasn't anything particular to mention - filling, though, and warming for the drizzly day it'd been that morning. The rice at the *bottom* of the stew, that'd been slowly cooking in hot stew the whole time, was *very good*. :D Wine-wise, they have like a hundred bottles of wine by the whole bottom, some very expensive, some *surprisingly* reasonably priced, but we also didn't need a whole bottle of wine with lunch - by the glass, they just had one red and one white house wine (also solidly priced, though, for a place like this, 6 euros (Be way more than that in the US. I had the red with the stew - solid.) Also a handful of solid-looking ports by the glass, one of which I had with dessert, a reserva tawny for 6.50 euros. After eating the stew, my wife tapped out. I was also pretty full, but I'd spent a lot of effort getting here and I was *gonna* have dessert, darn it. Had what was basically just a whole roasted stewed apple, cooked down until it turned to pudding. Super good. Went really well with a reserva tawny port. This place was great.

This was a low key restaurant located on a small street. The door was closed and locked so I had…read moreto knock before one of the staff came outside. Luckily for us the restaurant was only half full so there was no need to wait (weekday at 3pm). Odd hours for popular restaurants worked out the best for us on this trip. Inside there were just 8 tables so I can see why this place usually sees long lines outside. It was quite cozy. Menu was straightforward with appetizers, seafood and from the country (aka meat). The octopus rice was so good. The strips of sliced octopus were very tender and the flavors of this dish were delicious. It was comforting on that cold and rainy afternoon. The salt crusted seabass selection was delivered the with flare all covered in flames. Our server ignored the flames and proceeded to crack open the salt crust, fillet and debone the fish. Full service! The fish was meaty and perfectly cooked. The side of potatoes and broccoli was addicting and I normally don't eat a lot of potatoes. We skipped dessert but the menu was tempting. Besides the fish service it would've been nice to have a bit more proactive attention from our server. When we requested our check, she pointed out that out that tipping was not included and waited until we completed the transaction. Would return for the food next time in Porto.

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Taberna Dos Mercadores - Octopus and its Rice

Octopus and its Rice

Taberna Dos Mercadores - Flaming salt crusted seabass bass

Flaming salt crusted seabass bass

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Salted sea bass

Pedro dos Frangos - Frango 11.5€ + Arroz 3€

Pedro dos Frangos

4.3(176 reviews)
0.9 km

We read very favorable reviews of this restaurant, it was clearly a local favorite and we could…read morewalk to it from where we stayed on vacation. The focus here is on rotisserie chicken; they have other items but they're not the main event. It's very big inside, 2 stories and even early it's pretty busy. The chicken is well seasoned and very juicy; enough so that you know why it's So popular. Sides I can barely remember , but everything else was good- it's just that you will Always remember that chicken! Other than that, my only other clear memory of that dinner is that it was very reasonably priced. If I were in the area again, I'd return in a heartbeat. Highly recommended.

I am delighted that I tried this place. Upon walking in, there is a diner countertop that one can…read moresit at and basically watch the kitchen prepare your food. There is also dining upstairs. As I came in on my own I opted for the one open stool at the counter. The restaurant was busy on a Monday early evening, about 5:30-6:00 pm-ish, with what felt like mostly locals. They have a regular menu, a daily menu printed on the counter top, and they also do Take-Away. Their specialty is definitely their roasted chicken, which one can see cooking on spits at the entrance of the restatruant, conjuring such amazing smells that truly open up the appetite. The staff is sweet and did their best to serve me, with my English/Spanish and no Portugese self. Everything I ate was top-tier without being fancy. Simple and flavorful. I ordered a 1/2 chicken (way too much for me by myself) that came with batatas (french fries- which I didnt love), so I ordered a side of white rice and a salad, as well as what I would call a carafe of wine (it was definitely either two very healthy pours or 3 regular ones). All in all, I paid $15 euros, which I thought was a great value for all that I was given and how tasty everything was.

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Pedro dos Frangos - The chicken

The chicken

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Madeira Taste - Complimentary drink

Madeira Taste

4.6(14 reviews)
0.6 km

After a failed attempt to get a reservation at Tapabento, we ended up making a reservation next…read moredoor at Madeira Taste. The restaurant may look small with a few visible tables when you walk in, but there are more tables on the second floor. There are 2 wait staff and they were very friendly and helpful. We ordered the grilled octopus and the linguine with shrimp. After we ordered, the wait staff brought over a complimentary drink in a shot glass. They said that it was a traditional drink from Madeira that consists of lemon, orange, honey, and rum. The grilled octopus was cut in half, accompanied by some sliced vegetables and potatoes, and placed on top of a layer of olive oil. The octopus was tender in the center and cut away easily. The linguine with shrimp was very creamy. The linguine noodles were cooked past al dente. They were soft, just the way I like. I don't know what's in the sauce, but the creaminess and the flavors were quite addicting. I highly recommend this dish.

We arrived in Porto on the train in the cold rain. We got soaked waiting for our Uber and wanted…read moreto go someplace very close. When we entered for an early meal after 6 nowhere near 7) we saw a long bar, a tv on and only a few tables. We aimed for a table far from the open door. We ordered a bottle of red wine and vegetable soup, a grilled pork and a roasted pork dinner. The food was comfort food that was delicious, the wine was great and the service was casual. At the bar sat a few guys watching a football game with gusto. We enjoyed the entire experience and urge everyone in Porto local or visitor to get a wonderful meal and local dining experience!

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Madeira Taste - Linguine with shrimp

Linguine with shrimp

Madeira Taste - Grilled octopus

Grilled octopus

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Taberninha do Manel - Fresh made tuna salad with rustic bread and salted butter

Taberninha do Manel

4.4(86 reviews)
0.3 km
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This is the tourist trap but well used for a snack and drink it's got great choices. Heaters by…read morethe tables outside if you can get by one. Very busy during afternoons. The table side chorizo that they light with a flame for you along with a fantastic pitcher of sangria is worthwhile. We did not eat a lot there and weather was awful but it was a fun place to sit and people watch for a drink and snack. We even had a "flash band" set in front of us during the rain! They deserved their tip! Situated right on the main town side of the Douro river it's quite close to all the sites.

I am combining my description of the service and Ambiance as super spectacular and so inviting…read more When we got there around 10:00 p.m. at night on October 15th the restaurant was jumping. There were two other groups before us that were sat pretty quickly within 15 minutes or so. During the time we were waiting the hostess was extremely friendly and kept giving us updates on when the table was going to be ready and was making light conversation with us as we waited. When we finally got seated you could tell that the servers were definitely busy trying to get everyone's food and drinks out and so the same hostess came to us and said don't worry I'll take your order for you and told us the things that were the most popular which from my pictures we basically got everything she said LOL. And we were not disappointed with the food that we chose. Now we know why they are considered the house specialties. The flavors of the potato fish cheesy goodness dish I cannot remember the name of it was just so warm and comforting. I was worried about a fishiness coming through when you took different bites but no all the flavor is harmonized well with each other. The tuna salad that they made was extremely fresh and again was pleasantly surprised that though it was fish the spices and bread/butter combo that came with it really didn't give any fishiness. It was also well balanced. Now I will say though those other dishes were amazing our favorite hands down was definitely the grilled octopus. It was so tender and almost melt in your mouth. We were blown away by how well it was cooked. For sure I would say if you are in the area and have a good amount of time please check this spot out and give yourself at least 3 hours to enjoy the meal because again we sat there laughing eating and talking with the people around us because it was that fantastic of a Time for roughly 3 hours.

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Taberninha do Manel
Taberninha do Manel
Taberninha do Manel - Bridge near the restaurant and a example of the outside sitting area

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Bridge near the restaurant and a example of the outside sitting area

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